From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CA0EB716E for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:18:56 +1000 (EST) Subject: RE: Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jonathan Haws In-Reply-To: <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A305B@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu> References: <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A2F09@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu> , <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A2FBE@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu> , <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A301B@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu> <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A305B@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:18:50 +1000 Message-ID: <1283401130.16240.9.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "linux-net@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 22:46 +0000, Jonathan Haws wrote: > > Can anyone explain to me why I would be getting this error in the > first place? Why is it failing to allocate a page when there are > pages available? That does not make any sense to me. order:1 It's failing to allocate -two- pages. Cheers, Ben.